Genesis

I agree with this.

I don't know how I feel about this personally.

I feel ultimately the decision should be between Hobbit and the Staff.

Oh, if he wanted player feedback, then that's good. BUT, I think making this a poll would of been better lol.

And Yeah, Punishments shouldn't personally affect your character. (Unless it's something so bad, you basically get a save wipe)

Bans/boots are the best way to handle problems.

If somebody breaks a rule that legit is really bad, the option of permaban/code bans should be considered, I see that your rules thing mentions nerfing stats, which just isn't cool.

So, I hate double posting, but I'm going to post some of the rules I have a legit issue with, and shouldn't be included at all.

"Any hostile action that may result in injury or death or whote intentions are injury, death, or robbery must include a Malicious Intent tag at the end of the emote in a bracket, including the target of the intent."

I shouldn't need to state Violent intent, The target should read my RP, and comprehend I'm going to do something evil. I shouldn't need to blatantly come out and say "Hey I'm gonna kill you"

"Forfeiting The Rank:
Please try and forfeit the rank through IC, which enables a continuation of the rank through other means. Do not abruptly quit, or suicide your character as that will put you on the DNR indefinitely."

This should be up to the Rank holder, not a rule. If a rank holder wants to step down without appointing somebody else to the rank, they should have the ability to do so without being punished. Cause sometimes there just isn't a legitimate candidate ICly for a rank. Which case of course it just goes back to needing to have somebody get the rank requirements for the rank.

"Any party present may request INF or for response time in order to act in the coming scenario. Anyone that has the Roleplay ‘!’ is considered to have asked for INF.
The maximum INF can be used for one party is 5 minutes.
The other party should use five 60 second cooldowns, after the first one’s completion the scene is locked and those who arrive must adhere to the entry rules.
INF would require a rp mode (or something)"

Infinite timing is a bit of an issue to balance in itself. Due to some people taking advantage of it to use third party programs to get people to help them (I.E I get in a situation, and pop on skype to call my clique to help.) I think ultimately the solution to the issue isn't to limit inf, but to punish people who do this heavily, (possibly give them a permaban)

"Entry Rules: Arriving to a combat / hostile scenario will not immediately enter you into that combat.
Upon arrival you are a witness and must roleplay your arrival.
If player crossed z-planes they are locked out from the scene.
If player is present on the same z-plane they must wait 10 minutes."

I disagree with these two things. You shouldn't be locked out of a specific Z plane for 10 minutes. If my character gets a telepathy from somebody stating they need help, I should be able to cross multiple Z planes to get to them (long as it makes sense) Since Telepathy's been changed to only work contacts, you don't have the same issue you had in DBG anyway. The same goes for needing to be forced to stay in the same Z plane for 10 minutes. If I'm being chased by somebody, and I got someway to get off that planet, you don't think I'm going to use it? Instead if it's such an issue, the time for running should be increased to something like 10 minutes before the chaser has to give up on chasing the target.

"400% Beams:
Spreading your 400% beams throughout the game is not allowed.
Have your IC determine whether or not your ‘student’ is worthy of the 400%. Try and be selective, but gregarious. This does not mean the whole server, but if someone does deserve it - teach it."

Disagree with this. The creator of the 400% Beam should be allowed to be as stingy or as giving as they like. The only ranks that should be "Required" to teach are Acad masters, since that's what their whole rank is about.

"Saiyans born on Vegeta, to Saiyan parents should adhere to the culture and naming theme - Vegetable Themes.
Namekians born on Namek should adhere to the culture and naming theme - Joke names re; Puns or Instruments."

Disagree with this, you should be allowed to name your character whatever you want. I get that in DBZ a lot of the names were puns, but you shouldn't force players to follow the naming trend if they don't wish to.

I feel that the rest of the rules are alright, Although, I still wish that the main ones you list that had stat nerfs, just had simple bans/boots instead of insisting to bring RT/FINALE/DU style rules into the game.

A lot of the rules are brain-stormed. The rules on Genesis are so vague, and hidden that I couldn't really compile a proper list.

I'll edit it and let you know.

Re; the nerfing.

5% is a small amount to what you would miss out during a 24h, 72h, 1 week, 2 week, or 1 month ban timer.

5%, 10%, 20%. Is nothing if you consider the gains that you would be missing out of throughout that ban.

The thing is my dude, We're coming at the stat nerf stuff, from the angle of, it's much, like much more simpler to just do warnings, boots, bans.

The reason this combo is so effective, is because players who want to learn/do better, will understand what rule they broke, and would understand how to avoid it in the future. If you got punished because you were a new player, and you lost stats for it, you'd feel fucking terrible. You should never lose stats for the sake of breaking rules.

EZing shouldn't be a rule it's pretty non existant on DBG and if it's done it offers negligible benefit, that works for RPT sure but not here.

I reckon let stats be docked for repeat offenders, it will send a strong wake up call to abusers.

This rule list is largely a no. However, I'd like to explain a bit of my reasoning.

Firstly, the system of hard-listed offenses and punishments doesn't allow for admin prerogative when dealing with problem players. That, paired with the 'Player Protection' rule under title 3 would give players too much legitimacy against admins. During the recent wipe, there was a consistent playerbase of 100+, 80% of them new players who aren't familiar with how DBG is. Giving such a large, unaware playerbase such rule-backed power against the 3 or so admins is unfair to the admins and hampers their ability to efficiently solve offences.

As for the rules themselves, such as they are. Non-RP and 'obscene' roleplay are already covered, as well as the arbitrary punishments for non-rp isn't needed. The EZing rule needs to be removed outright. For one, the whole 'EZing check' doesn't need to be a hard rule. People need to go to the bathroom or grab food, and 30 seconds isn't nearly long enough to detect true EZing. Furthermore, the punishment of altering or stunting character progression is not an acceptable punishment. Warnings and ban times are sufficient.

Moving on to General 'Laws' (should be changed to General Rules). For title 2, 1 naming can and should be automated by a line of code. It's very easy to just automate capitalizing the first letter and removing symbols (or just rejecting names that don't align with the parameters).
Title 2, 2d should be reworded. All accidents are IC, bugs included, up until the point that an admin declares it (bug related accidents) reverted.
Title 2, 4a should be it's own rule.
All of Title 3 is completely unnecessary.
Title 4 claims the Cardinal planets exist in the living realm. Just a typo, but still.

Title 5 is just...no. Entirely no. It needs to be removed in its entirety. Firstly, the tag at the end of the RP is annoying and ugly. Secondly requiring any combat RP to be 3 lines or more doesn't need to be enforced. Naturally, 3 actions will take up about 3 lines, but multiple actions can be described on a single line. Combat doesn't need novels.
Mandatory infinite time is a detriment to combat as a whole. Not everyone has time to wait a century for someone to doll up 3 actions worth of typing. Sure, it's nice to have when both parties are consenting, but it should not be the default. The wording is also weird, 'INF' stands for 'infinite', limiting it to 5 minutes means it's not infinite. It's 5 minutes.
Then the whole process gets mucked up with 'phases' and stuff like that, it's all pretty arbitrary. A 60 second countdown for 3 actions, plus any counters or added participants within that countdown is fair. Anything additional (such as extended time, skipping the cd entirely, or pure verb) can be added at the consent of both parties.
Rule 7 isn't needed, as is already covered in pre-existing rules. It's also odd in that it's written to imply characters still exist in the game when the player logs out.

And lastly, the willpower mechanic is just stupid. It further complicates combat unnecessarily, and by your own admission in its description claim it comes from RPT, which is grounds enough to have it excluded in my opinion.